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Jake MeadorChurchBook Reviews

How to be an Evangelical Influencer (Apparently) - Commonplaces

Endorse a book you didn’t actually read. Capitulate to a Twitter mob demanding you retract your endorsement for the book that you didn’t actually read. Call the book’s argument, which is almost identical to things you’ve said in your own […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

The PR Style in Christian Media - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By now the discourse surrounding Joshua Ryan Butler’s book excerpt published at the Gospel Coalition has in some ways exhausted itself. To be sure, Butler’s intentions for the text — to highlight and commend the beauty of the Christian sex […]

David MooreFeaturedHistoryCurrent Politics

In Conversation with Os Guinness - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

This marks a veritable baker’s dozen of Guinness books I’ve read. None of the thirteen have been duds, though I certainly have my favorites. Guinness has authored about thirty-five books along with being the lead drafter for the Williamsburg Charter […]

Brian MesimerFeaturedCultureCurrent Politicshealth

Why Are Young Conservatives Less Depressed? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In a recent essay, Matt Yglesias attempted to explain the curious but well-documented phenomenon of why younger progressive minded teens are consistently more depressed than their conservative counterparts.

Jackson ShepardFeatured

Cultural Engagement After the World's End - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Evangelical discourse about cultural engagement betrays a dichotomy that was never meant to be. As we bicker and quarrel about what the priority of the Church should be—are we to make disciples or transform culture?—we bifurcate the tension at the […]

Christina StantonFeaturedCulture

The Legacy of Lena Horne - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the spring of 2010, I accepted a job with a student tour company to lead a group of middle schoolers from Anniston, Alabama, around New York City. This group wanted a tour that highlighted Black history and culture, and […]

Todd StathamFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth

A Time to Die: Reflections on Medically-Assisted Dying in Canada - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There is “a time to die” says Scripture (Ecclesiastes 3:2). When is that time? And who decides? I live in Canada, where these questions now seem to have clear answers: you may decide when to die, and whatever you decide […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Wild Christianity - Commonplaces

Kingsnorth has a must-read in First Things: Everybody is talking these days about the decline of the West, and with good reason. Some people think that Christianity should have something to say about this: that as the faith was the rock […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Wild Christianity - Commonplaces

Kingsnorth has a must-read in First Things: Everybody is talking these days about the decline of the West, and with good reason. Some people think that Christianity should have something to say about this: that as the faith was the rock […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureEvangelicalism

Renewing Public Protestantism: Online Media - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

(this post could be understood as a companion piece to the recent statement regarding a renewal of public Protestantism) If our traffic data is accurate, most of you reading this right now are reading on your phone. Over the last […]

Jeb RalstonFeatured

Championing an Unknown and Unbeloved Era: A Survey of Heiko A. Oberman’s Life, Work, and Methodology - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Late Middle and Reformation historian, Heiko A. Oberman, has left an indelible impact upon Renaissance and Reformation studies even twenty years after his untimely death. In this article, I seek to give an account of Oberman’s life and legacy, […]

Joshua HeavinFeaturedFormation

Deconversion and the Cross - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

What has God promised us about our lives, in the here and now? One of the earliest works of Christian theology is Origen of Alexandria’s On First Principles; a case can be made that it is our oldest, extant text […]